Georgia Tech vs. Syracuse: College Football Week 2 Picks (2024)
Week 1 of the 2024 college football season gave us a highly entertaining slate to watch. The expanded 12-team College Football Playoff is here and the energy was palpable throughout the country, with a couple of big upsets taking place. Notre Dame went on the road and won outright as 3-point underdogs against Texas A&M, while Miller Moss and the USC Trojans delivered a clutch performance down the stretch to beat LSU 27-20 as +4.5 point underdogs during the Modelo Vegas Kickoff Classic on Sunday night.
We wound up 4-0 with our Week 1 best bets, so let’s try to replicate that feat by analyzing and predicting some of the biggest games on tap for Week 2. Here are all of my top college football Week 2 picks. Below we dive into Georgia Tech vs. Syracuse.
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College Football Week 2 Early Picks: Georgia Tech vs. Syracuse
Georgia Tech vs. Syracuse
Our last game in Week 2 is an ACC matchup between Georgia Tech and Syracuse. The Yellow Jackets shocked Florida State in Week 1 with a last-second field goal, playing smash-mouth football and controlling the line of scrimmage with a heavy run-game.
Kyle McCord, Ohio State’s former quarterback, is now under center for the Orange and he looked sharp against Ohio University, completing 27-of-39 pass attempts for 354 yards and four touchdowns. Haynes King’s mobility is an asset for Georgia Tech to use against the Syracuse defense, which gave up 6.5 YPC to an inexperienced Ohio roster in Week 1.
Early line movement has Syracuse moving from a +1 to a +3 home underdog and the point total has soared 3.5 points to 61.0. If there’s any side we need to bet in this ACC contest, it’s going to be laying the points with the road favorite. Georgia Tech’s confidence after shutting down Florida State cannot be overlooked and McCord will have his hands full against a much-improved defense, despite experience at Ohio State.
Let’s stake a unit on the Yellow Jackets to cover the point spread by a field goal at the JMA Wireless Dome on Saturday afternoon.
Best Bet: Georgia Tech -3 (-115)
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